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Voldemort? That might be real.
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
People fear they won’t get what they want.
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights...
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.
What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.
When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time.
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.